Arkkitehtistudio EMP Oy - Practice of the architect Esko Puijola. Includes information about the enlargement of Oulu city centre, on the layout of an attraction in the Salla hills and of the development of Caritas village community.
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Oulu "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Oulu
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Oulu Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Oulu
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Oulu Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Oulu
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Oulu Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Oulu
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Oulu "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Oulu
Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Oulu This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Oulu
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 What's new? Most of my wife. Oulu "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Oulu
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Oulu I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Oulu
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Oulu "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Oulu
When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Oulu There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Oulu
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Oulu We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Oulu
